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... observe their nume- rous tentacles expanded outside of each horny cell . " But what kind of animals do you call those which " Country Walks , ” p . 64 . dwell in these little homes ? " asked Willy . Sea - side Walks of a Naturalist . 7.
... observe their nume- rous tentacles expanded outside of each horny cell . " But what kind of animals do you call those which " Country Walks , ” p . 64 . dwell in these little homes ? " asked Willy . Sea - side Walks of a Naturalist . 7.
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... tentacles around it which bring it food , and a stomach . remember at present . This is enough for you to The hydrozoa contain many families , and a great number of species . They are very interesting microscopic objects ; so we will ...
... tentacles around it which bring it food , and a stomach . remember at present . This is enough for you to The hydrozoa contain many families , and a great number of species . They are very interesting microscopic objects ; so we will ...
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... tentacles . At first sight we should suppose that this encrusting animated mass was closely related to the Sertularia and Laomedea we found just now ; but we should be wrong : you would find that the animals of this colony are much more ...
... tentacles . At first sight we should suppose that this encrusting animated mass was closely related to the Sertularia and Laomedea we found just now ; but we should be wrong : you would find that the animals of this colony are much more ...
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... tentacles besides the comb of bristles . " But , papa , " said Jack , " how does the little worm make this delicate tube of sand as thin as paper ? " It selects the grains of sand by means of its ten- tacles , which secrete a sticky ...
... tentacles besides the comb of bristles . " But , papa , " said Jack , " how does the little worm make this delicate tube of sand as thin as paper ? " It selects the grains of sand by means of its ten- tacles , which secrete a sticky ...
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... tentacles spread out in the little pool the tide has left ; the mouth is situated in the centre of the disc . I dare say we can tempt the creature to use it for our instruction . I will catch a small fish and offer it to the anemone ...
... tentacles spread out in the little pool the tide has left ; the mouth is situated in the centre of the disc . I dare say we can tempt the creature to use it for our instruction . I will catch a small fish and offer it to the anemone ...
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15 Wood Engravings anemone animal aquarium asked Willy beautiful beautifully coloured bird body British byssus called catch caught cloth gilt coast common Conchology Conway cormorant crab Crown 8vo crustacea curious devour dredge eaten eggs elegantly bound feet FERNS fins fish fishermen Foolscap 8vo foraminifera garfish GROOMBRIDGE & SONS gull head HEIR OF REDCLYFFE holes hydrozoa Illustrated with 15 inches long Jack Jacko Laminaria lesser black-backed gull London look mackerel microscope molluscs mouth mussels naturalist Nottingham Catchfly numerous Wood Engravings oyster papa Parry Evans Paternoster Row plant prawns pretty PTILOTA PLUMOSA Puffin Island puffins Rhos-fynach rock salmon sand sand-eel sand-launces sea-anemones sea-hare sea-side sea-weed seen shark shell shore skate soon species specimen spicules sponge star-fish stone STORIES suckers surface swallow swim SYNAPTA tail tentacles tide tube Weir Fishery whelks whitebait Willy asked worm young zoophyte
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Page 150 - SEE what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl, Lying close to my foot, Frail, but a work divine, Made so fairily well With delicate spire and whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design ! 2 What is it ? a learned man Could give it a clumsy name.
Page 61 - I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy; for from within were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea.
Page 27 - Bank the mid sea : part single, or with mate, Graze the sea-weed their pasture, and through groves Of coral stray, or sporting with quick glance Show to the sun their waved coats dropt with gold...
Page 94 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, — Calm or convulsed, in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving — boundless, endless, and sublime, The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 126 - As when fire is with water commix'd and contending, And the spray of its wrath to the welkin upsoars, And flood upon flood hurries on, never ending ; And it never will rest, nor from travail be free, Like a sea that is labouring the birth of a sea.
Page 112 - But what our eyes have seen and our hands have touched we shall declare. There is a small island in Lancashire called the ' Pile of Foulders,' wherein are found the broken pieces of old and bruised ships, some whereof have been cast thither by...
Page 112 - Bird : when it is perfectly formed the shell gapeth open, and the first thing that appeareth is the foresaid lace or string ; next come the legs of the bird hanging out, and as it groweth greater it openeth the shell by degrees...
Page 112 - ... finely woven as it were together, of a whitish colour; one end whereof is fastened unto the inside of the shell, even as the fish of...
Page 123 - As it does not generally break up before it is raised above the surface of the sea, cautiously and anxiously I sunk my bucket to a level with the dredge's mouth, and proceeded in the most gentle manner to introduce Luidia to the purer element. Whether the cold air was too much for him, or the sight of the bucket too terrific, I know not, but in a moment he proceeded to dissolve his corporation, and at every mesh of the dredge his fragments were seen escaping.